If they want to place a tracker on your car, they have to get a warrant.
The USSC ruled that placing the tracker counts as trespass so it requires a warrant. They are free to just follow you around or track you via license plate scanners.
That seems the wrong way around... Why are ICE agents allowed to connect this to an illegal alien issue when the fourth amendment still exists?
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy for license plates (or faces) scanned in public so mass surveillance of license plates in public either does not implicate the 4th amendment or is "reasonable" under the 4th amendment.
Why would you willingly expose even the most secure login page to the net if you didn't have to? Between bruteforce, backdoor accounts, overflow errors, URL manipulation, and yes, even the dreaded default password,
If you trust the hardware and software, which I would not for any commercial or consumer stuff, then you might expose a secure login to the router so that the firewall rules can be modified to allow incoming connections only from your current IP.
That's a good option, but I'm looking for Wifi too... want to use *MY* wifi rather than the ISP's, in case they decide to do fun stuff like turning my wifi into a hotspot...
There are some FreeBSD friendly Wifi adapters but much better for both features and RF propagation is to use dedicated indoor access points like something from Ubiquiti.
Hmm, the only problem is that an old Dell uses ten times more power than a little ARM based router. Something like a $30 Raspberry Pi with Raspbian may be a better idea for a home router.
More generic old x86 hardware does a little better. Underclock the processor, make sure power management is enabled, and replace the mass storage with solid state storage.
The problem with ARM is finding something which has 2 or more *real* Ethernet ports for a reasonable price and none of them will have ECC memory. Low end x86 which can include ECC is a lot more flexible and still economical even for power.
The Marvell Espressobin looks interesting given its low price. Ha! It even has OpenWrt support but I do not see any FreeBSD.
they rather you go buy a new D-Link Router, if i had one of these routers i would be sure to buy another brand, but if D-Link quickly made a new firmware and patched my router it would give me confidence in D-Link's attention to detail and would gladly make my next router a D-Link product, (something to think about D-Link people)
I am still waiting on the firmware update for my DI-624s with D-Link's promised Wifi security updates. I am sure they will release them any day now; it has only been 15 years.
Why would anyone still buy anything from D-Link or e.g. Cisco?
Damn if I know.
I gave up on D-Link more than 10 years ago when they reneged on firmware updates for Wifi security which they said they would support and then their routers just died one after another within a span of months. Since then I have been using the same Slot 1 x86 based FreeBSD router which is going on 20 years old now and has failed once... when the ice machine upstairs sprung a leak and dripped water into it. And that only knocked it out of operation for 24 hours and 15 minutes of downtime since I had a spare Pentium4 to replace it temporarily; FreeBSD did not even blink at the hardware change.
That's cute that you believe flashing a firmware with something else is an absolute guarantee of security.
It is better than the alternative of using the stock firmware but not as good as using something like Linux or FreeBSD on your own x86 or possibly now ARM hardware.
otherwise they'd have to give you two boxes and risk you screwing up the configuration between the two somehow.
lol. Really? The casual user's cablemodem gives out an ethernet port, which you connect your own router to, which will work out of the box in every case as new routers are already set to DHCP. If you're like me and have a business, then the cablemodem will give you multiple ports, which will behave the same way. I have static IP addresses, so the configuration becomes a little (just a little) more involved, but "screwing up the configuration" is not on the agenda.
The ISP gives you one box by preference and if you are lucky, it operates in straight passthrough in one form or another requiring a customer to use their own router which the ISP cannot deal with. And then there are ISPs like AT&T which expect you to use their modem/router and passthrough mode is crippled so you never get full functionality if you use your own router.
I like how AT&T would update the firmware on their router resetting all configuration to reenable things like the WiFi and breaking all security. I never used their Wifi and always had my x86 FreeBSD router between their router and my LAN despite how they crippled this mode of operation by blocking protocols and limiting connections.
Transport a firearm wrong. - No shit, if you are transporting firearms you need to know the appropriate laws
Knowing the appropriate law is not enough when the prosecutor decides what the appropriate law is.
California had proscriptions on transporting a "loaded firearm" but does that mean actually loaded, or separate magazine loaded, or just having the firearm, magazine, and ammunition in proximity? I do not know the current situation but for a long time it was the last.
Does the federal safe transport law apply if you stop to get lunch, use a restroom, or stay overnight on a long trip? It sure does not in states like New York and New Jersey. Remember the Olympic shooter who was arrested in Chicago at the airport?
What happens when you take a flight to Maine while following all regulations to transport your hunting weapon and the flight is diverted to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, or Chicago because of bad weather? You are fucked because now you are in possession of an unlicensed firearm.
And yet still no examples of felonies that an average person might commit on a daily basis.
Do you have some fender washers and cast iron pipes or metal tubing in your garage? That is constructive possession of an NFA item, namely a silencer. The same goes for a length of string and split ring commonly used for a key chain which can readily convert a semi-automatic firearm into a machine gun. Ever let your semiautomatic rifle get so dirty (or leave the disconnector spring out of your AR-15) that it double fires? BATFE says once a machine gun always a machine gun. Federal gun laws get incredibly technical and they are trivial to violate; and the BATFE is not responsible for giving the wrong advice.
Ever talk with a federal law enforcement officer? If their recollection of what you said disagrees with what you said, then that is another felony for lying or obstruction of justice. The FBI of course make it policy to only record interviews on paper to take maximum advantage of this.
Do you have any expired prescriptions medications in your medicine cabinet? Maybe some Vicodin that you did not completely use?
And then there is the whole computer fraud and abuse act. Or what about the Mann Act?
How many federal felonies involve shellfish? Texas has at least 11 just by itself.
Add the federal conspiracy statute. Every notice how so many stacked charges get dropped with only a conspiracy charge remaining? Why is that?
And remember, while ignorance of the law is no excuse, whether it is statutory, regulatory, or judicial, it *is* an excuse if you are a law enforcement officer arresting someone.
You don't have to have a plate on a vehicle unless it is moving on a public road. Either cover the plate when you park it in you driveway or build a James Bond license rotating plate.
Tell that to people who get tickets for their car parked in their driveway.
I think it's pretty indisputable that "vehicular sensors and constant attention" plus "human senses and reasoning" is going to be by far the safest option.
I would dispute it. If humans think that driving control can be left to automation, then most of them are not going to pay much attention. So if the safety does depend partly on the driver it is likely to fall between two stools. Automated driving needs to be all or nothing.
I have said it before; backing up an ever vigilant automated system with a distractable human is the worst combination. Any automated system which relies on immediate action from a person is not safe.
Even worse, the people designing and selling these systems can simply say everything worked fine until the human who was suppose to by paying attention to nothing failed. It will always be driver error.
VHF spectrum (FM is in the middle of VHF) isn't really that great for high speed data. I think the idea of reclaiming it to make mobile phones faster is a misunderstanding along the way.
What is really going is that some portion of that band will be reclaimed and used for private purposes like point-to-point wireless networking. It's important to realize that what once was a radio band accessible by the public is going to become private.
If you use a big enough notch of the band you can have very fast networking, but if you slice it up into lots of channels so that many mobile devices can work at the same time then it's going to be slow. Also transmitting with a tiny fraction of an antenna is not very effective, it's preferable to go to a higher frequency where your antenna is quarter wave or better.
The entire broadcast FM band is not large enough to support competitive high speed data and the antenna length required is inconvenient. It works well enough with a car antenna or analog headphone antenna but portable devices without these or a whip antenna are going to perform very poorly.
As it is now at least in the US, the band is a wasteland except for emergency broadcasts but without some reason to use it regularly, nobody will be prepared to listen to the later anyway.
50% penetration to turn off analog radio is inherently prejudicial (both have 50% penetration but one is promoted while the other demoted) but that is not what is actually happening (so far).
It is 50% penetration of not just DAB but Satellite, DTT, and online streaming.
I do find this regulation suspect... why was this not a topic of study or discussion on an official level (perhaps annually) before?
From the look of the UK FM bandplan, more than half of the FM broadcast band is reserved for government (BBC) use. Why would they care if an essential emergency service was discontinued without an equivalent replacement?
Oh, and GPS isn't provided for free nor is US military protection. There are royalties involved with GPS and if you think US military protection doesn't come with strings attached you are an idiot.
Going to need a citation for royalties.
There are some ITAR restrictions on specific features but commercial GPS hardware does not use them.
Device manufacturers pay royalties when they sell a device that supports GPS. There might be an exception for cell phones that only use GPS for 911 calls - but GPS is not free.
Going to need a citation for that.
Manufacturers may be paying for various intellectual properties for a specific implementations of the receiver but the original patents are long expired and the specifications are open. On an assembly basis you can buy the hardware, integrate it, and go.
There are ITAR restrictions on specific features but consumer hardware does not implement those.
One of the FreeBSD router packages like m0n0wall or pfsense running on x86 hardware works well enough. Even better, use an inexpensive VLAN switch as an Ethernet port expander so that m0n0wall or pfsense can route between every device on your network allowing you to choose what can see what. By default, everything can then see the internet, the internet cannot see anything, and nothing on the internal network can see anything else on the internal network. This will prevent one compromised system from compromising other local systems.
an app (really a giant AI in the background) providing alternative solutions that you can decide between could be Utopian.
I would suggest to you that even this level of choice is going to be largely an Illusion. The AI will simply give you a choice, one that it has identified the most likely decision you will make already (95% confidence level), the choice being an illusion of control, when the reality the AI doesn't really need your input, but asks just to be "nice".
So like an election which uses plurality (first past the post) as a voting method? It is a good thing nobody is stupid enough to do that.
Sounds like a violation of the 4th amendment, just with extra steps.
Great, just try to enforce it. First you will need standing. If you get past that, then you will need a remedy. Since the remedy for a 4th amendment violation is exclusion of evidence, which does not apply in a civil trial, you will need to be the defendant in a criminal trial. If you get past all of that, then law enforcement will use parallel construction anyway.
They didn't even need to go with the already-so-tired goto of planting/claiming child porn!
Actually the only reason I can think they would do this is that if they prove or frame this guy for releasing those documents, then they can't frame or accuse anyone else of doing the same thing in the future.
Trying him in court him based on the leaked information might be inconvenient in a public court.
This would be ideal for certain types of nuclear waste as well. Not the partially used rods and pellets of nuclear fuel mind you. If we ever smarten up and finally start building thorium reactors, the rods and pellets from uranium fission plants can easily be fully consumed in a thorium molten salts reactor. I read somewhere that used fuel rods or pellets are barely used up in terms of reactivity when they are removed from use. (which is why they get sequestered in cooling ponds for so long)
The residual radioactivity is mostly from fission products and not the original fuel so presumably the fuel would be reprocessed chemically to separate the majority of the remaining fuel from the minority of the fission products and the dangerous fission products would be impaled into the crust entering the seduction zone with something like a steel and concrete dart.
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If they want to place a tracker on your car, they have to get a warrant.
The USSC ruled that placing the tracker counts as trespass so it requires a warrant. They are free to just follow you around or track you via license plate scanners.
That seems the wrong way around... Why are ICE agents allowed to connect this to an illegal alien issue when the fourth amendment still exists?
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy for license plates (or faces) scanned in public so mass surveillance of license plates in public either does not implicate the 4th amendment or is "reasonable" under the 4th amendment.
Why would you willingly expose even the most secure login page to the net if you didn't have to? Between bruteforce, backdoor accounts, overflow errors, URL manipulation, and yes, even the dreaded default password,
If you trust the hardware and software, which I would not for any commercial or consumer stuff, then you might expose a secure login to the router so that the firewall rules can be modified to allow incoming connections only from your current IP.
That's a good option, but I'm looking for Wifi too... want to use *MY* wifi rather than the ISP's, in case they decide to do fun stuff like turning my wifi into a hotspot...
There are some FreeBSD friendly Wifi adapters but much better for both features and RF propagation is to use dedicated indoor access points like something from Ubiquiti.
Hmm, the only problem is that an old Dell uses ten times more power than a little ARM based router. Something like a $30 Raspberry Pi with Raspbian may be a better idea for a home router.
More generic old x86 hardware does a little better. Underclock the processor, make sure power management is enabled, and replace the mass storage with solid state storage.
The problem with ARM is finding something which has 2 or more *real* Ethernet ports for a reasonable price and none of them will have ECC memory. Low end x86 which can include ECC is a lot more flexible and still economical even for power.
The Marvell Espressobin looks interesting given its low price. Ha! It even has OpenWrt support but I do not see any FreeBSD.
they rather you go buy a new D-Link Router, if i had one of these routers i would be sure to buy another brand, but if D-Link quickly made a new firmware and patched my router it would give me confidence in D-Link's attention to detail and would gladly make my next router a D-Link product, (something to think about D-Link people)
I am still waiting on the firmware update for my DI-624s with D-Link's promised Wifi security updates. I am sure they will release them any day now; it has only been 15 years.
Why would anyone still buy anything from D-Link or e.g. Cisco?
Damn if I know.
I gave up on D-Link more than 10 years ago when they reneged on firmware updates for Wifi security which they said they would support and then their routers just died one after another within a span of months. Since then I have been using the same Slot 1 x86 based FreeBSD router which is going on 20 years old now and has failed once ... when the ice machine upstairs sprung a leak and dripped water into it. And that only knocked it out of operation for 24 hours and 15 minutes of downtime since I had a spare Pentium4 to replace it temporarily; FreeBSD did not even blink at the hardware change.
That's cute that you believe flashing a firmware with something else is an absolute guarantee of security.
It is better than the alternative of using the stock firmware but not as good as using something like Linux or FreeBSD on your own x86 or possibly now ARM hardware.
otherwise they'd have to give you two boxes and risk you screwing up the configuration between the two somehow.
lol. Really? The casual user's cablemodem gives out an ethernet port, which you connect your own router to, which will work out of the box in every case as new routers are already set to DHCP. If you're like me and have a business, then the cablemodem will give you multiple ports, which will behave the same way. I have static IP addresses, so the configuration becomes a little (just a little) more involved, but "screwing up the configuration" is not on the agenda.
The ISP gives you one box by preference and if you are lucky, it operates in straight passthrough in one form or another requiring a customer to use their own router which the ISP cannot deal with. And then there are ISPs like AT&T which expect you to use their modem/router and passthrough mode is crippled so you never get full functionality if you use your own router.
I like how AT&T would update the firmware on their router resetting all configuration to reenable things like the WiFi and breaking all security. I never used their Wifi and always had my x86 FreeBSD router between their router and my LAN despite how they crippled this mode of operation by blocking protocols and limiting connections.
Transport a firearm wrong. - No shit, if you are transporting firearms you need to know the appropriate laws
Knowing the appropriate law is not enough when the prosecutor decides what the appropriate law is.
California had proscriptions on transporting a "loaded firearm" but does that mean actually loaded, or separate magazine loaded, or just having the firearm, magazine, and ammunition in proximity? I do not know the current situation but for a long time it was the last.
Does the federal safe transport law apply if you stop to get lunch, use a restroom, or stay overnight on a long trip? It sure does not in states like New York and New Jersey. Remember the Olympic shooter who was arrested in Chicago at the airport?
What happens when you take a flight to Maine while following all regulations to transport your hunting weapon and the flight is diverted to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, or Chicago because of bad weather? You are fucked because now you are in possession of an unlicensed firearm.
And yet still no examples of felonies that an average person might commit on a daily basis.
Do you have some fender washers and cast iron pipes or metal tubing in your garage? That is constructive possession of an NFA item, namely a silencer. The same goes for a length of string and split ring commonly used for a key chain which can readily convert a semi-automatic firearm into a machine gun. Ever let your semiautomatic rifle get so dirty (or leave the disconnector spring out of your AR-15) that it double fires? BATFE says once a machine gun always a machine gun. Federal gun laws get incredibly technical and they are trivial to violate; and the BATFE is not responsible for giving the wrong advice.
Ever talk with a federal law enforcement officer? If their recollection of what you said disagrees with what you said, then that is another felony for lying or obstruction of justice. The FBI of course make it policy to only record interviews on paper to take maximum advantage of this.
Do you have any expired prescriptions medications in your medicine cabinet? Maybe some Vicodin that you did not completely use?
And then there is the whole computer fraud and abuse act. Or what about the Mann Act?
How many federal felonies involve shellfish? Texas has at least 11 just by itself.
Add the federal conspiracy statute. Every notice how so many stacked charges get dropped with only a conspiracy charge remaining? Why is that?
And remember, while ignorance of the law is no excuse, whether it is statutory, regulatory, or judicial, it *is* an excuse if you are a law enforcement officer arresting someone.
You don't have to have a plate on a vehicle unless it is moving on a public road. Either cover the plate when you park it in you driveway or build a James Bond license rotating plate.
Tell that to people who get tickets for their car parked in their driveway.
I think it's pretty indisputable that "vehicular sensors and constant attention" plus "human senses and reasoning" is going to be by far the safest option.
I would dispute it. If humans think that driving control can be left to automation, then most of them are not going to pay much attention. So if the safety does depend partly on the driver it is likely to fall between two stools. Automated driving needs to be all or nothing.
I have said it before; backing up an ever vigilant automated system with a distractable human is the worst combination. Any automated system which relies on immediate action from a person is not safe.
Even worse, the people designing and selling these systems can simply say everything worked fine until the human who was suppose to by paying attention to nothing failed. It will always be driver error.
VHF spectrum (FM is in the middle of VHF) isn't really that great for high speed data. I think the idea of reclaiming it to make mobile phones faster is a misunderstanding along the way.
What is really going is that some portion of that band will be reclaimed and used for private purposes like point-to-point wireless networking. It's important to realize that what once was a radio band accessible by the public is going to become private.
If you use a big enough notch of the band you can have very fast networking, but if you slice it up into lots of channels so that many mobile devices can work at the same time then it's going to be slow. Also transmitting with a tiny fraction of an antenna is not very effective, it's preferable to go to a higher frequency where your antenna is quarter wave or better.
The entire broadcast FM band is not large enough to support competitive high speed data and the antenna length required is inconvenient. It works well enough with a car antenna or analog headphone antenna but portable devices without these or a whip antenna are going to perform very poorly.
As it is now at least in the US, the band is a wasteland except for emergency broadcasts but without some reason to use it regularly, nobody will be prepared to listen to the later anyway.
50% penetration to turn off analog radio is inherently prejudicial (both have 50% penetration but one is promoted while the other demoted) but that is not what is actually happening (so far).
It is 50% penetration of not just DAB but Satellite, DTT, and online streaming.
I do find this regulation suspect ... why was this not a topic of study or discussion on an official level (perhaps annually) before?
From the look of the UK FM bandplan, more than half of the FM broadcast band is reserved for government (BBC) use. Why would they care if an essential emergency service was discontinued without an equivalent replacement?
Oh, and GPS isn't provided for free nor is US military protection. There are royalties involved with GPS and if you think US military protection doesn't come with strings attached you are an idiot.
Going to need a citation for royalties.
There are some ITAR restrictions on specific features but commercial GPS hardware does not use them.
Device manufacturers pay royalties when they sell a device that supports GPS. There might be an exception for cell phones that only use GPS for 911 calls - but GPS is not free.
Going to need a citation for that.
Manufacturers may be paying for various intellectual properties for a specific implementations of the receiver but the original patents are long expired and the specifications are open. On an assembly basis you can buy the hardware, integrate it, and go.
There are ITAR restrictions on specific features but consumer hardware does not implement those.
One of the FreeBSD router packages like m0n0wall or pfsense running on x86 hardware works well enough. Even better, use an inexpensive VLAN switch as an Ethernet port expander so that m0n0wall or pfsense can route between every device on your network allowing you to choose what can see what. By default, everything can then see the internet, the internet cannot see anything, and nothing on the internal network can see anything else on the internal network. This will prevent one compromised system from compromising other local systems.
an app (really a giant AI in the background) providing alternative solutions that you can decide between could be Utopian.
I would suggest to you that even this level of choice is going to be largely an Illusion. The AI will simply give you a choice, one that it has identified the most likely decision you will make already (95% confidence level), the choice being an illusion of control, when the reality the AI doesn't really need your input, but asks just to be "nice".
So like an election which uses plurality (first past the post) as a voting method? It is a good thing nobody is stupid enough to do that.
Warning: do not place ladder on frozen manure pile; it may cause cancer.
Sounds like a violation of the 4th amendment, just with extra steps.
Great, just try to enforce it. First you will need standing. If you get past that, then you will need a remedy. Since the remedy for a 4th amendment violation is exclusion of evidence, which does not apply in a civil trial, you will need to be the defendant in a criminal trial. If you get past all of that, then law enforcement will use parallel construction anyway.
They didn't even need to go with the already-so-tired goto of planting/claiming child porn!
Actually the only reason I can think they would do this is that if they prove or frame this guy for releasing those documents, then they can't frame or accuse anyone else of doing the same thing in the future.
Trying him in court him based on the leaked information might be inconvenient in a public court.
I do not like using plastic bags but not because of environmental concerns with their disposal; I prefer paper bags because I hate trees.
This would be ideal for certain types of nuclear waste as well. Not the partially used rods and pellets of nuclear fuel mind you. If we ever smarten up and finally start building thorium reactors, the rods and pellets from uranium fission plants can easily be fully consumed in a thorium molten salts reactor. I read somewhere that used fuel rods or pellets are barely used up in terms of reactivity when they are removed from use. (which is why they get sequestered in cooling ponds for so long)
The residual radioactivity is mostly from fission products and not the original fuel so presumably the fuel would be reprocessed chemically to separate the majority of the remaining fuel from the minority of the fission products and the dangerous fission products would be impaled into the crust entering the seduction zone with something like a steel and concrete dart.
You still have the right to an unmonitored attorney vist.
Sure you do. And prosecutors turn over Brady material. Tell me another one.
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